OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 19 shown for “Lime Container Topped by a Warrior” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:56 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Lime Container Topped by a Warrior

Lime Container Topped by a Warrior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cavagnole

Cavagnole

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poporo (lime container) with female figures, by Quimbaya artist(s)

Poporo (lime container) with female figures

Quimbaya artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with a Heraldic Achievement, by Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711

Ornament Design with a Heraldic Achievement

Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711 · ca.1670–ca.1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lime container in the shape of a captive, by Wari artist(s)

Lime container in the shape of a captive

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a painted decoration in honor of a French general who had been governor of a crown prince

Design for a painted decoration in honor of a French general who had been governor of a crown prince

Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lime container, by Wari artist(s)

Lime container

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Beaker

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Temple of Curiosity

Temple of Curiosity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Romulus and Remus: Decorations for Reception Room, Aldini Villa, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Berlinghiero

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Warrior Bottle

Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Warrior and Attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Fox Warrior Bottle

Fox Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 2109 matched · 24 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2055986 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 10:56 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.